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BIRTH

MARTIN-At the Peak Hospital, yesterday, to hir. and Mrs.

T. A. Martin, Д daughter

(still born).

Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 13. 1930.

by indirectly inciting the Chinese to violence, To single cut any one foreigner and accuse him of. crimes against the Government and people of China, is, under the circumstances, unreasonable.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930.

CORRESPONDENCE, MAN REARED BY

BABOONS.

FOOTBALL DISPUTE,

[To the Editor of "Chins Mall.”3

Tarzan

Life.

of Real

A story of a native "Tarzan of

baboons while his

The dastardly attempt upon Sir-Having read to-day's issue the life of Mr. Simpson is to be of a morning paper in which ap deplored and condemned, for it pears a report of the suspension can only lead to further excesses of the two Chinese Athletic play the Apes." who as a child was

ers, and in particular, noting Mr. seized by and retaliation upon foreigners Duncan's report on my presence. at mother was hoeing mealle and [who openly align themselves with the meeting of the Emergency was reared by them until he was any Chinese faction. As is point- Committee held on October 8, I am rescued from the bush when he ed out in the Peking and Tientsin forced to write and acquaint your was 14, is told by the Fort Alfred readers with the fact that my pre correspondent of a Bloemfontein Times, "foreigners who take so sence there was most reluctantly newvapaper.

The correspondent states that

prominent a part as Mr. Simpson allowed, it being put to me by Mr. did in Chinese political conflicts Duncan at the time that the case the man, now 30 years old, has take great risks in these desper was purely one between the players the habits of a baboon and eats concerned and the Football Associa-raw food... His body, is scarred ate days." There seems to be ation and had nothing whatsoever to all over through jumping baboon- general tendency to explain the do with the Chinese Athletic A-like in the bush.

As the malter was of outrage as having no political sociation.

He was seized when asleep as significance, but to our mind it great importance to the CA.A, the child; and years later, as a bay, players under trial being prominent was discovered with a troop of will be difficult to sustain such an members of this Club, I asked per-baboons by a farmer, When he The assassins may mission to stay and represent them was taken to market he attracted Obeying the Chairman's order so much attention from other

pro-natives on account of his long.

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argument. never be found or brought to justice. We may never know who kept quiet throughout the

ceedings, but finding that the oral arms and curious shape that the employed them, but in the minds statements made by the two players farmer was obliged to dispense of all impartial observers, the gave nothing for the Asociation to with his services.

When leading crime will remain as typical of convict. I asked permission from oxen he would habitually jump on the meeting to allow them to play the yoke and sit there monkey- Chinese political methods.

for the Club the following Satur-wise. day, as we were short of players. Mr. Duncan replied that, they could not do so at the moment as they had to consider the case but would let me know the next day, when I was surprised to receive a letter from the Hon. Secretary informing me that the players concerned had been suspended for life, it being alleged that they had violated Rules. 12 of the H.K.F.A. and 29 of the E.F.A.

News in Brief.

Information has been received from the N.Y.K. that the Horant Maru from London will arrive to-morrow at 6, a.m.

Mr. F. T. Melwani, the former Captain of Sindhi's cricket team, who has been on a holiday to India, is due here to-morrow by the s.a. Haruna Mara.

NUDITY PROHIBITION

CENSURE FOR SHOWS AND BATHING SUITS.

Manila, October 30. Following the suggestions madė • by Judge Simplicio del Rosario, of the city court of first instance, I was not satisfied with the de- Councilor Antonio C. Torres will cision and made an appeal to the introduce this evening at the the decision was session of the municipal board a Council but sustained for reasons unknown to proposed ordinance amending sec

state. tion 819 of the Revised Ordinances, me. I then asked for the ments written out by Mr. Duncar prohibiting the exhibition of nude and purporting to contain the exaet and semi-nude remarks made by the two players vaudeville theatres and also on the who has and found that they did not bear screen. A Chinese banishee,

The former, municipal board pre- twice returned since his banish- a true interpretation of what these

issident went farther than the sug- "It is a sad reflection that ment term of ten years from players had actually stated.

statements written by Mr. gestions of Judge del Rosario by November, 1927, was to-day scn- these the representatives of some tenced to twelve months' hard Duncan had only been read out to including in the proposed ordinance countries should see fit to iden-labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, for the players while the case was be which he has, completed, the pro-

to make good his threat against

M/S Hokuroku Maru sails for those who supported Nanking. In Los Angeles, Panama, New York, his signed editorial in the Peking Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore Leader of June 7, after denounc-on December 6, 1930 via Keelung,

Shanghai, and Japan Ports. ing Nanking for incapacity and alleged corruption, he concluded. as follows:-

tify themselves with a cause

order,

women in local

measure with a

that is not theirs except in the disobedience of his deportation ing tried on October 8, and their hibition of women from appearing. signatures sezured' to them as be in Indecent bathing suits on ser sense that they have been ac-

ing entirely correct, the decision to shores, swimming pools, and other cessories before the fact; and

Notice has been given to the Har-suspend would have been justifled public places.

Councillor Torres would panalisá it is devoutly to be hoped that bour Master by the Armament Sup- and i would have no grounds what- they will see the light before it ply Officer, Royal Naval Armament soever for complaint, but the fact violators. of the is too late. For as surely as Depot, that a small quantity of fire-is that the Emergency Committee prison term of not more than "six the sun rises when the Capital works and small arms ammunition have charged these players on the months nor less than one month, or is back in Peking before the will be fired for proof purposes at strength of statements alleged to a fine of not more than P200 nor end of the year, a reckoning will be called, and those who Stonecutters Rifle Range on Mon- have been made by the latter but less than P100, or both imprison- which actually were written downment and fine in the discretion of day morning. have made themselves 'hench-

by the Emergency Committee more the court men of the camarilla will find

as they pleased.

The proposed ordinance, was pre- Reported missing from 12 Shep- or less that they must follow that herd Street, Tai Han, on October no hesitation whatsoever in stating pared by Councillor Torres, accord- camerilla into exile with a label 31, the body of a Chinese male that had these statements been reading to him last evening, as a result attached to them which will named Chan Kwan-chuen (68) was out to the players and correctly of personal investigations which he follow them through life." found in the harbour off Taikoo Interpreted to them, they would made of conditions in local vandé-

There are no have refused to sign them. This indicates either an un- Docks yesterday. balanced mind or the height of suspicious circumstances attached vindictive partisanship, a deliber-to the case.

to

I have

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ville theatres following the receipt

I also wish to say that at the of tivo letters from Judge del Council meeting held subsequently Rosario exposing and denouncing to the Emergency Committee meet-the practice of permitting the ex- hibition of semi-nude women in ate threat against all foreigners Before 1930 is forgotten the ing, neither the players nor who believed that Nanking was Hong Kong Civil Service List for representative of the C.A.A. were vaudeville theatres..

In his explanatory note, Coun worthy of respect and support 1980 has made its appearance, a present and I believe the decision

a copy having been courteously to suspend was sustained merely on cillor Torrea reviewed at length the of dress and voiced their endorsement of forwarded to the China Mail by the the strength of Mr. Duncan's re-evolution of the modes its programme. Mr. Simpson's publishers, Noronha & Co. We marks, there being no chance for worn by the Filipino women from early Spanish times up to the pre- character was further revealed hope to peruse the 452 pages be- the defence to conduct their case,

Inasmuch as the decision arrived sent. In part, he said: when, in taking over the Tien-fore the 1991 issue comes

at by the Football Association here "In this city, there exists a hand. tain Customs offices from Col..

was based on the statement written vaudeville company, which, to my Deeper Than the Sword.

uπ- the external glitter of their lasciv- by the latter that his instructions tive of four months' hard labour, players under. trial would It was said of the late Mr.were to evacuate the whole staff was this morning imposed on a doubtedly have refused to admit lous appearance. In this company Chinese who pleaded guilty before as being correct if the contents are displayed, we do not day women. Bertram Lenox Simpson that in the event of interference, he Mr. R. E. Lintsell to the posses- had wholly been made known to but mere girls of ages ranging from there were times when his point-retorted that any Chinese obey-sion of a quantity of both qualities them, submit that the attitude 14 to 16 years, who, attracted by ed pen cut deeper than a sword, Ing the evacuation order would of oplum. Revenue Oficer Grim- adopted by the governing body all the acquisition of a badly under

mitt said that the man came off along has been an arbitrary one.

Yours, etc., and that when wielded as it has be shot.

the steamer Kong Ning last night

-J. LEE, been on innumerable occasions-on According to Mr. T. V. Soong, and had the opium tied round his

Hon, Football Manager behalf of China, it has won more the Nationalist Minister of Fin-legs.

Chiness Athletic Association. victories for her than battalions once, "Mr. Simpson has commit-

The Royal Army Service Corps Hong Kong, November 13. or diplomacy. His articles in theted crimes against the Govern-

are holding their third dance of the Peking Leader and various Lon-ment and the people of China deseason on Friday, November 21, in WONDER CLOCK. don newspapers denouncing the serving the severeat punishment the Wellington Barracks Hall, com- The music Nationalist regime stand as the by law. Yet, while we sym-mencing at 8.30 p.m.

on this occasion will be suppiled by most scathing indictment of any pathise with Mr. Scong's right the Jazz Band of 31.M.S. Berwick. Chinese Government ever penned ous indignation and resentment which earned great popularity re by a foreign crtic, When, on top against a writer who has so cently for its performances on ships of this powerful anti-Chiang pro-mallefously lampooned and libel in the Atlantic Fleet, prior to its paganda, he threw in his lot with led him and his colleagues, we fail members commissioning in H.M.S. Marshal Yen Hai-shan and accept to see the difference in the posi- *****

Hayley-Bell, on being informed A fine of $600, with the alterna-out by Mr. Duncan and which the knowledge, attracts our youth with

éd

Berwick,

KNIGHTS IN COMBAT AT EACH QUARTER,

stood fame, offer themselves to ba converted into stage mest in ex- change for a handful of pesca.” ~

Police authorities and the mayor stated that the provisions of sec tion 819 are vague. Their opinions were given out after the publication of a letter from Judge del Rosario. For this reason, Counciller Torres prepared the proposed ordinance to make the ordinance more specific in as far as vandeville theatres are concerned.-Manila Bulletin.

IS YOUR NAME HERE?

Mall has been received at the “ American Consulate General for the following persbus;—-~

Wm. R. Attaway,Ch. L'Boender,

A remarkable bronze clock, destined for a public building in don. It measures 18 ft. from top Ontario, has been made in Lon- to bottom, and weighs over a ton. The lower part represents the a post which enabled the tion of Mr. Simpson and of many Old comrades gathered in the Northern Coalition to divert the other foreigners employed in Savoy Hotel last night on the round tower of a Norman castle, occasion of the Royal Engineers before which, every quarter-hour, Tientsin Customs revenues into various capacities by the pro- Asociation dinner, Colonel H. B. two knights meet to Joust. With 31 F. Bostwick, G. Carey, Chong their own war-chest, he dealt the vincial and factional governments Skinner, O.B.E., took the chair, and levelled lances they charge each Lok, Rev. J. J. Corbett, S. Domingo, Nationalist cause a blow heavier of China. Foreign opinion there was a large attendance. other, twice at a quarter-past, T. Durdin, H. C. Evans, P. Hamble than any defeat it could have China is largely influenced by its Colonel Skinner, as president, gave four times at half-past, and six ton, E. Hamilton, H. Martin. sustained on the field of battle, environment," and foreigners 're. the loyal toast, after which "the times at three-quarters past the McGee, I. C. Mollor, J. Murphy, and in this respect materially as siding in the North are intensely Col W. Marsion Lt. P. T. full hour they have eight bouts. 5. J. Newman, W. C. Ockland, F slated in prolonging the war and hostile to the cult of Dr. Sun Yat- Mahoney, in proposing the toast Occasionally a combatant is hit, N. Shumaker, Mrs. K. Sraith, E. the-miseries of the people, sen and will never be reconciled of the REO.C.A., traced the bis and, pivoted on his thighs, falls now, G. L Townsend, Wardley,

tory and objects of the Association back on the haunches of his Review, which devotes an inter- Government from Peking and the followed the dinner.: esting article to Mr. Simpson in loss of their positions as official

Carps" was proposed by Lieut-hour When the clock strikes the

W. B. Williamson."

According to the Far Eastern to the removal of the centre of excellent musical programme charger. He comes up smiling,

however, for the next round. The As the doctor hurried down the

design is taken from the clock on garden path he paused to look at

Ita October issue, he went out-advisera, perquisites, and profit. In a report made to the Police Wells Cathedral, which was in the work of the local builder, whe So Tsang HI Hing master of a vented by Peter Lightfoot, a was making a feve alterations to side the scope of legitimate fable Government contracts. On cites 2 boat, of 70 picule capacity, fourteenth-century monk at Glas- the house.

"Ah, Sawyer," he remarked. journalism to give force to his the other hand, Nanking has to stated that at about 4pm. yester tonbury.

A smell rotary motor provides cheerfully, pointing to a rather arguments and threatened those day in its service many foreign- day whilst Oshing off Green Island

a sudden strong gust of wind caus- the power and the performance tagged piece of decoration, "paint who did not agree with him. Had ers, some of whom have takened the craft to capsize, throwing is controlled automatically by a and putty cover up a lot of your Yen Hai-shan emerged from the active part in the recent hostill the entire crow (four males) into synchronome master clock misdoings, don't they?

victor Mr. Simpson would ties, in addition to blatant ad- the harbour. A Felice launch

The timepiece was executed by The builder was at a loss for, a have been elevated visers and propagandists, who in rescued the party, and towed the Mr. F. Hope-Jones, who is the moment, yes, doctor," ho seld, www.water-logged Jank back to Yau maker of the clocks at Greenwich after a second, and I suppose tho to the their own way are committing. A fishing net, valued at $80, Oservatory that have broken the spade and the shovel cover up

world's record for timekeeping. good deal of Yours.

their own

was all that was lost.